Beagle Regains IP
Peter S. Beagle and newly formed ownership group SHP, LLC have regained the rights to much of Beagle’s intellectual property in a sale recently approved by the US Bankruptcy Court.
Beagle filed a lawsuit against his former business manage, Connor Cochran, in 2015, winning a total of $332,500 in damages. Related lawsuits against the Avicenna Development Corporation and Conlan Press, Inc., were stayed when Cochran filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for those entities in 2018, and the rights to many of Beagle’s works were tied up in the process. The author’s lawyers have since been working with the bankruptcy court to regain control over his work.
One of Beagle’s future projects will be to advocate and raise awareness about elder abuse, with plans for the creation of a non-profit to address this issue in the works. But Beagle’s focus right now is on getting down to business, working in partnership with SHP to explore new projects based upon his extensive library of works, now back within his creative control, and continuing to write new material. “I’m going to be working. For me, that’s perfect. There are so many possibilities. This feels like a rebirth. I’m not only still here, I’m more still here.”
For more information, see SHP’s press release.
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